Comcast DNS down again tonight WOW

Wow two nights in a row and three times in less that a week.

Thanks but fortunately I never switched back to Comcast DNS nameservers. I never noticed an issue tonight until I read it in some other forums. I think I'm gonna stick with either some ORSC Public access DNS ones or just use some other ones that are available(Speakeasy, Level3, etc). That way I don't need to even use Proxy servers. I am reading the Comcast is now populating DHCP resolution with more than their normal two DNS servers.

X-No-Archive: Yes

Comcast must have a number of open Socks proxies. Some guys that use IRC to do live commentary from figure skating competitions are often bouncing off open proxies on the Comcast network. A lot of these proxies, especially the Socks ones, are apparently using ports other then 23 or 1080, so they are slipping under the radar for the time being.

Set up a local caching server.

Near all legit sites with a good admin will block your "up" stuff, e.g. comment posting, feedback posting, anything involved with posting.

A famous example: Slashdot

Why? Spammers use them :) I mean take advantage of them

Also if I was a clever crook, I'd open a proxy on purpose to entire net, wait for unsuspecting ones (those doesn't use https) come by. Harvest all...

While I report spam via spamcop, I see amazing tricks being done so I wouldn'T be surprised at all.

Ilgaz Ocal

it's not outages, it's scheduled maintenance over and over and over........

That was when Comcast was changing service from 3mbs to 4 mbs and 6mbs if you pay an extra $10.00 a month.